[ga-full] RE: [aso-policy] RE: [aso-comment] IP address holders - are they represented?

[mike.norris@heanet.ie]

> > ICANN's membership structure (http://members.icann.org) is open to
> > **all** members of the Internet community and offers a broad and global
> > channel for input and representation in Internet governance.
> 
> It doesn't serve any useful purpose to repeat nostrums and empty
> formulas, does it? ICANN is supposed to be open to all stakeholders,
> but in fact it hasn't been open to any end-users, either of domain
> names or of IP addresses. The former have been consistently and
> categorically excluded from the DNSO, and the latter have no direct
> representation in the ASO. That is the objective reality. Saying
> that they are included doesn't make it so.

That's a rather sweeping dismissal and ignores what I said in the 
earlier part of my mail about the open processes of policy formation
and representation in at least one region.  I'd be the last to try
to force one region's practices on another region, but we can learn
from each other, and it may be that something useful in this instance
may be learned from the RIPE experience.

Regards.

Mike

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